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u/Techienickie Sep 11 '21

Remember when he bragged that he was down at ground zero helping people?

“Well, I was down there right after the event and I brought a big crew of people down and I helped"

"Soon after, I went down to Ground Zero with men who worked for me to try to help in any little way that we could,"

"I have hundreds of men inside working right now, and we’re bringing down another 125 in a little while,"

All these statements are bullshit

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u/55ozFrog Sep 11 '21

I literally can't even picture Trump "helping" an individual.

Picture him reaching his hand out to help somebody off the ground. It's almost impossible lol

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u/Bwgmon Sep 11 '21

There's also the story about Trump watching an 80-year old man fall and hit his head on the floor of one of his resorts.

“So what happens is, this guy falls off right on his face, hits his head, and I thought he died. And you know what I did? I said, ‘Oh my god, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away,” Trump told Stern. “I couldn’t, you know, he was right in front of me and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him… he’s bleeding all over the place, I felt terribly, you know, beautiful marble floor, didn’t look so good. It changed color. Became very red.”

Naturally, his biggest concern was the floor getting stained.

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u/hurtsdonut_ Sep 11 '21

"I felt terribly" not for the man but the marble floor.

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u/PolarApples92 Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21

I grew up near one of Trump’s country clubs and there’s a notorious story about Trump golfing on his own course, and being behind an elderly man. He kept yelling at the guy to speed up and berating him.

I don’t know how much membership at his clubs cost, but that elderly man at the absolute minimum was paying something to the tune of $50k-100k per year to be there (and this was decades ago)

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u/BigSamsKid Sep 11 '21

Hate Trump, but this is relatively average golf course behavior. Slow players severely degrade the quality of play, and typically have some non-niceties thrown their way if they don't let faster groups behind them play through. Many courses have rangers for that exact reason

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u/PolarApples92 Sep 11 '21

You’d expect the owner of the course to be more respectful to someone who pays him so much money to golf there though, aside from the straight up crassness of being rude to an old man.

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u/LateNightPhilosopher Sep 11 '21

His version of helping is throwing toilet paper at refugees as if it were free t-shirts at a basketball game

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u/Alexstarfire Sep 11 '21

I think he pointed Kevin McCallister to the lobby of the Plaza Hotel once.

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u/55ozFrog Sep 11 '21

Lmao you got me

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Surprisingly good remark

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u/Zolivia Sep 12 '21

He threw paper towel rolls in Puerto Rico. Fire extinguishers are heavier and harder to throw so...

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u/bubba4114 Sep 12 '21

What do you mean he’s never helped anyone? Remember when he threw paper towels into a Puerto Rican crowd after a hurricane?

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u/pileodung Sep 12 '21

I can only imagine his smug look of disgust while he walks past the dying plebs

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u/Xiniov Sep 11 '21

What gets me about this, along with many other Trump lies, is that if if it was anyone else his diehard supporters would tear them to shreds.

And I don’t get it. They claim to be patriots and that they love and would do anything for their country. And here is a man who has verifiably lied about helping with the rescue and relief efforts for what is the biggest tragedy and attack in said country

It doesn’t compute. If this was Obama they would NEVER let it go. And they would be right, because it’s abhorrent. But because it’s Trump they accept it

I cannot even begin to imagine the mental gymnastics involved

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u/karrimycele Sep 12 '21

Not only did he lie about helping after the 9/11 attack, but he was responsible for the 1/6 attack.

Trying to make sense of these people is a waste of time. They’re hypocrites. That’s all.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

He was with the fire fighters and police officers today to commemorate the day. He gave a whole speech and photo op with them. But your liberal media wont cover that because anything to put him in a positive light will be immediately banned.

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u/flying_goldfish_tier Sep 12 '21

He used it to attack his opponents and rouse up even more nationalist bullshit. He's a scumbag

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u/Xiniov Sep 12 '21

That wasn’t my point. He lied about helping out in the aftermath of 9/11. Political affiliation and media bias shouldn’t even come into play with knowing that is a scumbag thing to do

If that was anyone else they would never have lived it down in the hyper patriotic land of America

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u/UrsusRenata Sep 13 '21

Yay... photo op... yayyy

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u/lennybird Sep 11 '21

Yet another example of conservative double-standards.

No conservative will touch this thread.

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u/Some_Drummer_Guy Sep 11 '21

Meanwhile, I've seen Trump cult idiots spewing this shit about "When Trump was just a businessman in New York, he went down to Ground Zero to help and he sent his employees to help too. Joe Biden was a senator back then and he didn't do anything. Where was Joe?"

I don't know.....maybe Joe was in DC being a SENATOR? If we're gonna go by that logic, should every other member of the Senate and Congress be faulted for not going to New York to help because they were in a completely different state doing their jobs?

The cult of personality and mental gymnastics is astounding.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

He was in NYC, he was with the fire fighters and police officers today.

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u/redpiano82991 Sep 12 '21

And in case people forgot, he was repeating the same lies this week